Group "Nastya" - Ural legend

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The rock group "Nastya" appeared in the days of the USSR, in the 86th year of the last century. The city from which the creative life of the team began was Yekaterinburg. Singer Nastya Poleva initially acted as a good friend of the Nautilus Pompilius group during their concerts, and after some time she began to write her own compositions and invited musicians.

Biography

The group "Nastya", like "Nautilus Pompilius" and "Urfin Deuce", is the first shock wave of Ural rock. All participants hung out in the same team and gave joint performances, but over time they turned into three completely independent teams.

In the year of the birth of "Nastya", their first brainchild called "Tatsu" appeared to the world. Its content was like a tropical fruit - exotic, tasty and never seen before. The album clearly felt the flavor of the East, which sounded very interesting and unusual for the citizens of the socialist republic. The texts were written by Anastasia Poleva herself, as well as by other musicians - Zhenya and IlyaThe breadwinners.

Debriefing

The debut album of the Nastya group was in demand, and if at that time there were popularity ratings, Tatsu would have soared to the very top. According to the media, Anastasia Poleva was the "Soviet Kate Bush", but the subsequent performance at the Podolsk festival was not perceived by the audience with the expected excitement.

In 1988, the line-up underwent the strongest metamorphoses, and of the old comrades in it, besides Anastasia, only Yegor Belkin remained. A year later, the first tour took place across the expanses of the USSR, where the music of the Nastya group was perceived with a bang.

Soon the team lit up on the blue screen, and the voice of Anastasia Poleva often began to be heard from the radios. And this meant that it was necessary to make even more efforts to stay at the achieved height.

Window to Europe

In March 1989, a new album from the Urals was released, called "Noa-Noa". Almost all the lyrics of these songs of the Nastya group were written by Ilya Kormiltsev. A few months later, one significant event happened - the guys performed on the same stage with the Chaifas, proving to everyone that they deserve it. And in the 90th the team went to conquer Holland and Germany.

In 1993, the Nastya group firmly settled in St. Petersburg, where it continued its fruitful activity, only without the previous participants.

About the leader

Since the name of the team is associated with the name of this talented woman, her biography should be given special attention. The date of her birth (as well as the place) is a moot point, sincedifferent sources provide completely different information. According to one of them, this is December 1, 58th, and according to the other, 61 years are indicated. Place of birth - the city of Pervouralsk (although, possibly, Sverdlovsk).

Nastya was quite an ordinary girl and after school she went to the Sverdlovsk Faculty of Architecture for higher education. It was there that she got acquainted with rock music and began to participate in amateur performances along with her fellow students. In the end, Anastasia learned how to create her own songs and made friends in the face of famous rock musicians from the Urals.

First experience - Trek group

In 80, Nastya Poleva put together her first band, which performed very successfully not only in Sverdlovsk, but also beyond its borders. The guys even went to a concert in Moscow, which was a very brave decision.

However, after that, simple cassettes with their recordings were distributed throughout the USSR in a fairly short time. Everything would be fine, but journalists from the then Komsomolskaya Pravda saw some criminal overtones in the songs of Trek and denigrated the group.

That's just such advertising has led to the exact opposite effect. And the team began to dominate in their native Sverdlovsk rock club. But in 1983, the Trek group fell apart, and Nastya Poleva was inactive for some time.

Friendship with the Nautilus

After a three-year break, the singer appeared at the Sverdlovsk Regional Rock Festival with songs written by Ilya Kormiltsev, who also worked on the lyrics of Nautilus Pompilius and Urfin Djus. The musicians of the above-mentioned groups helped the singer to realize her plans,like:

• Aleksey Mogilevsky;
• Dmitry Umetsky;
• Egor Belkin;
• Alexander Pantykin.

The music of the group "Nastya" with the participation of these talented guys died down at the rock festival "as it should", but they did not want to leave their own teams at all, so Polevoy had to look for other musicians for herself.

Nastya in St. Petersburg

Poleva did not want to stay in her native Yekaterinburg, because in Moscow or St. Petersburg she, as a creative person, had much more prospects. Therefore, after the implementation of the album "The Bride" in 1993, the singer went to the city of "White Nights".

Two years after the move, the group "Nastya" releases vinyl with cover versions called "Tipe Dance", followed by a creative break. In 1997, the album Sea of Siam was released, which was recorded as a duet with Belkin. He very quickly won the love of a wide audience and the favor of critics. The album to this day is listed among the best works of blacksmiths of intellectual rock in our vast country.

Personal

Nastya and Yegor are not only creative colleagues, but also a happy married couple. When the musicians moved to St. Petersburg, they decided to unite by marriage. Despite the fact that they have been together for a very long time, God did not reward this union with children.

New creativity

All subsequent albums Belkin wrote and mixed himself:

• "Herbarium" - 2000;
• "NeNastya" - 2002;
• "Through the Fingers" - 2004;
• "Bridges over the Neva" -2008.

The lyrics belong to Nastya, and the music belongs to Egor. In addition, the husband chose the difficult lot of the producer for himself, because promoting your group on your own is doubly pleasant. Recently, Nastya has been seen in joint projects with the Bi-2 group.